It should be available from both Amazon and The Critical Reader within the next two weeks. It features three full-length Reading & Writing tests in dSAT format (two modules per exam, each with 27 questions) and includes detailed explanations for all questions. The first is a test book to accompany the main Reading and Writing guides. I am very happy to announce two additional forthcoming Critical Reader prep books for the digital SAT. I felt obligated to remedy the situation, hence this post. Although the phrase popped up immediately as a search term, I was, to my considerable surprise, unable to find a single explanation that both addressed the issue directly and was written in coherent, grammatical English. contractions” into Google to see what the depths of the Internet would reveal.

Operating under the assumption that if one person is confused about a given point-particularly someone trying to explain it to literally thousands of people-then many other people are probably confused as well, I plugged “conjunctions vs.

I was not exactly shocked-I mean, it is YouTube-but still, it was pretty painful to watch. In all my years of tutoring and writing about grammar, this particular point of confusion has never come up… that is, until a couple of days ago, when I clicked through a YouTube SAT-grammar video sent by a colleague and realized, after a brief period of confusion, that the tutor confidently expounding on conjunctions was actually talking about contractions.

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